LINKDING

<blockquote>Bodhi can't go back, but he's determined to keep moving forward.</blockquote> ➤ Kind of feels like two different ficlets smushed together. I really like the first one. The second is fine but doesn't feel to me to add anything to the story. So I'm tagging just based on the first half.

<blockquote>Style icons of the galaxy, unite!</blockquote> ➤ In which Padme is a style inspiration for Lando

<blockquote>Luke kills his father and Falls, and Leia becomes the last resort.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The war is over and Bodhi Rook has been away from Jedha for too long. It’s time to go home. He winds up with an unexpected passenger. A love story between two people and a place, about all the different meanings of home.</blockquote> ➤ (and then a sequel about finding & rescuing Rey, and then a meta post describing the events that led to this au) ➤ Series consists of: Stone and Sand Different Deserts For Those That Read Stone and Sand

<blockquote>Rey has a plan. Get to Ahch-To. Find the lightsaber. Get off Ahch-To forever. This plan is foiled by a group of judgemental fish nuns. A story of complicated emotions, unimpressed aquatic aliens, and fixing what you can.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rey never expected that Han and Chewbacca would keep coming back.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Han offers Luke some unexpected support after the funeral of the guy who tortured him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Four times Han definitely didn’t need anybody’s help, and one time maybe he did.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dying, for a Jedi Master in the line of Yoda, was a gentle thing. or "Hi, Not Listening To This Anymore," Han said, appearing suddenly. "I'm dead."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke and Leia, growing up and watching the stars.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's a grieving process, of some kind.</blockquote> ➤ Lando dealing with L3's death

<blockquote>It's been a long time since Savareen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Anakin has always had an easy time getting what he wants. (He never means to do it.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Written 12/10/18 for syrena_of_the_lake, in response to the prompt: Star Wars, any droid, misheard voice commands</blockquote>

<blockquote>Trade that necklace for a glimpse into your future. A Rogue One vid.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To earn her place on the Falcon, Leia has to be useful, so she tries to learn everything she can.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"We should take the general on a mission," Rose said. "One that's useful and not fatal." “We have those?” Finn asked. “Probably not fatal if well-executed,” Rose amended. The surviving members of the Resistance decide the best way to help Leia is to take her on a recruiting mission to Rose's home world.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"If Vader captures you, if he threatens to torture or kill you, you tell him you're Padmé Amidala's daughter."</blockquote>

<blockquote>She's older now, and so is he. Far older now. She wonders: will he have lost any power with his age? Will he be shorter, weaker? An old man on a ventilator? It's hard to imagine that he won't still be dangerous. But then, that's exactly what she's counting on.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“Hello.” Luke blinked down at the very tiny girl with dark purple hair sitting to his left. “Uh, hi,” he tried. Up until now the little girl had been eating her food and not all that interested in the state dinner going on around her, and Luke had been talking with an ambassador from a world he hadn’t quite caught the name of so it’d been a stressful forty minutes so far. “Do you want help with the silverware?” the little girl asked. “Only you’re eating your salad with the dessert fork.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>The messenger arrives a few weeks after Crait, dressed in cloth of gold and piloting a ship that costs more than the entirety of the Fleet. (Not that that’s saying so very much these days). “On behalf of Her Royal Majesty Queen Hoyoan and her Consort the Princess Ji’ii of the system Reylouris, I humbly beg audience with the personage known as Rey,” he says. Possibly she, or some other pronoun; Leia literally can’t see more than a pair of eyes under all the cloth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Of course, of course she has a better handle on it than him; he can find her, sometimes, but she can shut him off immediately; all he gets are impressions, not even ideas much less any sights or sounds. But she can pull herself into his mind at will—sometimes he doesn’t even notice she’s there until she leaves, pleased with whatever she’s watched or heard or ferreted out. It’s like swatting at a fly, one too fast to catch, with only Raglien pincers.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Beru Whitesun Lars goes to war.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luke is desperate to learn the ways of the Force. Leia can't really help him there, but she knows how to wield a blade.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When your father dies, say the Coruscanti, you are left clutching a star map for a different galaxy.   In this, as in many things, Leia is her fathers' daughter.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Poe gets a second chance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When you die, you have to walk a desert. Obi-Wan and Anakin are dead, and they've been to deserts before.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes, Leia feels as if she's spent her whole life grieving.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You take responsibility for your actions if you’re in the Resistance, even if those actions are, you know, mutiny. “There’s—” Okay, There’s nothing wrong with me is clearly not accurate.</blockquote> ➤ Author's note: <blockquote>Even though I appreciated the character development in TLJ, the writing for Poe and Holdo’s storyline was so sloppy it hurt me in my soul and (as is the case for like 90% of everything I write) I immediately started trying to fix it. Particularly, I was interested in finding logical reasons why: – an experienced vice admiral, in an organization so informal most people go by their first names, would not just tell her panicking crew that actually, they did have an escape plan – an experienced military pilot would suddenly start second-guessing all his commanding officers, even when they have stellar records and/or he's personally loyal to them – said commanding officers would react to this with “lol what a scamp” instead of anger or betrayal or brig time</blockquote> ➤ yes good this author and I agree on what was wrong and so we agree about what needs to be fixed. This is a good fic.

<blockquote>Rey isn't really sure how to be a Resistance Hero or a ...Jedi? Presumably? She does know how to fix spacecraft. So does Rose.</blockquote>